Grub versus Boot Manager

Karl kaha at colug.org
Thu Mar 17 22:23:59 UTC 2005


I personally prefer Vim to write LaTeX (and everything else). It's a
markup language, so you can use whatever text editor you like. I use it
to write fiction; the beauty of LaTeX (at least for me) is that it frees
me to concentrate on content, without having to worry about formatting.


On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 22:50 +0100, Lars Hallberg wrote:
> Joe Malin wrote:
> 
> > Dear Tim,
> >
> > You may be right. I pinged a fellow tech writer who knows something 
> > about LaTex, and he was amused that someone suggested it as a 
> > replacement for FrameMaker.
> 
> It's a tool for writing documents, that handel big documents well, and 
> have allot of features for manuals, techwriting, math etc. But it is a 
> *verry* different tool.
> 
> For editors: some vi clone, emacs, or easiest for beginners - LyX... But 
> i don't know howe well LyX handels huge document. But You can split 
> documents. One document for each chapter then import them in the 'book' 
> dokument.
> 
> /LaH
> 
> 
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